# Ernst Wellmann

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|name=Ernst Wellmann
|birth_date={{Birth date|1904|1|14|df=y}}
|death_date={{death date and age|1970|7|17|1904|1|14|df=y}}
|birth_place= [Szamotuły](/source/Szamotu%C5%82y) Samter
|death_place= 
|image=
|caption=
|nickname=
|allegiance={{flag|Nazi Germany}} <br/>{{flag|West Germany}}
|branch={{army|GER}}
|service_years=1935–45<br/>1956–60
|rank=[Oberst](/source/Oberst) ([Wehrmacht](/source/Wehrmacht)) <br/>[Brigadegeneral](/source/Brigadegeneral) ([Bundeswehr](/source/Bundeswehr))
|commands=[Panzer Division Holstein](/source/Panzer_Division_Holstein)
|unit=
|battles=[World War II](/source/World_War_II)
<!--- *[Annexation of the Sudetenland](/source/German_occupation_of_Czechoslovakia)
*[Invasion of Poland](/source/Invasion_of_Poland)
*[Battle of France](/source/Battle_of_France)
*[Operation Barbarossa](/source/Operation_Barbarossa)
*[Battle of Białystok–Minsk](/source/Battle_of_Bia%C5%82ystok%E2%80%93Minsk)
*[Battle of Smolensk (1941)](/source/Battle_of_Smolensk_(1941))
*[Battle of Kiev (1941)](/source/Battle_of_Kiev_(1941))
*[Battle of Moscow](/source/Battle_of_Moscow)
*[Second Battle of Kharkov](/source/Second_Battle_of_Kharkov)
*[Battle of the Caucasus](/source/Battle_of_the_Caucasus)
*[Battle of Kursk](/source/Battle_of_Kursk)
*[Belgorod-Khar'kov Offensive Operation](/source/Belgorod-Khar'kov_Offensive_Operation)
*[Lower Dnieper Offensive](/source/Lower_Dnieper_Offensive)
*[Cherkassy Pocket](/source/Korsun%E2%80%93Shevchenkovsky_Offensive) --->
|awards=[Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves](/source/Knight's_Cross_of_the_Iron_Cross_with_Oak_Leaves)
|other_work=Police officer
}}

'''Ernst Wellmann''' (14 January 1904 – 17 July 1970) was an officer in the [Wehrmacht](/source/Wehrmacht) of [Nazi Germany](/source/Nazi_Germany) during [World War II](/source/World_War_II). He was a recipient of the [Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves](/source/Knight's_Cross_of_the_Iron_Cross_with_Oak_Leaves).

==Awards and decorations==
<!-- * [Sudetenland Medal](/source/Sudetenland_Medal) with Prague Castle Bar
* [Wound Badge](/source/Wound_Badge) (1939)
** in Black
* [Infantry Assault Badge](/source/Infantry_Assault_Badge)
* [Eastern Front Medal](/source/Eastern_Front_Medal) --->
* [Iron Cross](/source/Iron_Cross) (1939)  2nd Class (20 September 1939) & 1st Class (21 October 1939)<ref name="Thomas p433">Thomas 1998, p. 433.</ref>
* [German Cross](/source/German_Cross) in Gold on 8 June 1942 as ''[Major](/source/Major_(Germany))'' in the I./Schützen-Regiment 3<ref>Patzwall & Scherzer 2001, p. 505.</ref>
* [Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves](/source/Knight's_Cross_of_the_Iron_Cross_with_Oak_Leaves)
** Knight's Cross on 2 September 1942 as ''[Oberstleutnant](/source/Oberstleutnant)'' and commander of I./Panzergrenadier-Regiment 3<ref>Fellgiebel 2000, p. 358.</ref>
** 342nd Oak Leaves on 30 November 1943 as ''Oberstleutnant'' and commander of Panzergrenadier-Regiment 3<ref>Fellgiebel 2000, p. 65.</ref>

==References==

===Citations===
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===Bibliography===
{{refbegin}}
* {{Cite book
  |last=Fellgiebel
  |first=Walther-Peer
  |authorlink=Walther-Peer Fellgiebel
  |year=2000
  |orig-date=1986
  |title=Die Träger des Ritterkreuzes des Eisernen Kreuzes 1939–1945 — Die Inhaber der höchsten Auszeichnung des Zweiten Weltkrieges aller Wehrmachtteile
  |trans-title=The Bearers of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross 1939–1945 — The Owners of the Highest Award of the Second World War of all Wehrmacht Branches
  |language=German
  |location=Friedberg, Germany
  |publisher=Podzun-Pallas
  |isbn=978-3-7909-0284-6
}}
* {{Cite book
  |last1=Patzwall
  |first1=Klaus D.
  |last2=Scherzer
  |first2=Veit
  |year=2001
  |title=Das Deutsche Kreuz 1941 – 1945 Geschichte und Inhaber Band II
  |trans-title=The German Cross 1941 – 1945 History and Recipients Volume 2
  |language=German
  |location=Norderstedt, Germany
  |publisher=Verlag Klaus D. Patzwall
  |isbn=978-3-931533-45-8
}}
* {{Cite book
  |last=Thomas
  |first=Franz
  |year=1998
  |title=Die Eichenlaubträger 1939–1945 Band 2: L–Z
  |trans-title=The Oak Leaves Bearers 1939–1945 Volume 2: L–Z
  |language=German
  |location=Osnabrück, Germany
  |publisher=Biblio-Verlag
  |isbn=978-3-7648-2300-9
}}
{{refend}}

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Category:1904 births
Category:1970 deaths
Category:People from Szamotuły
Category:Recipients of the Gold German Cross
Category:Recipients of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves
Category:Military personnel from West Prussia
Category:Reichswehr personnel
Category:Brigadier generals of the German Army
Category:German Army officers of World War II

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